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Musical score display apparatus

a music score and display device technology, applied in the field of music score display devices, can solve the problems of difficult reading of lyrics and excessively increased character intervals of lyrics

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-08-22
YAMAHA CORP
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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides a musical score display apparatus that can neatly display lyrics in addition to notes on a musical score. The apparatus includes a display that can display sections of a lyric represented by lyric data contained in performance data, together with notes represented by note data contained in the performance data. The apparatus also includes a section detector for detecting a section where lyric sections would overlap if displayed together. The display controller then controls the display to prevent the lyric sections from overlapping. This allows for easy reading of the lyrics without any special operation and ensures good appearance of the lyrics and notes on the musical score.

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However, in the above-described conventional apparatus, although, for note display, the width of each measure and intervals of notes are adjusted so as to prevent notes of different timings from overlapping on a displayed musical score, the adjustment is performed only for the purpose of eliminating overlap of notes, and overlap of lyrics is not taken into consideration.
Therefore, in a location where the density of notes is low from the beginning, and corresponding lyrics are displayed without overlap, the character intervals of the lyrics are increased excessively, which makes reading of the lyrics difficult.

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a. First Embodiment

[0030]A first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing an electronic musical instrument equipped with a musical score display apparatus according to the first embodiment.

[0031]The electronic musical instrument includes a controller group 1, a detection circuit 2, a CPU 3, ROM 4, RAM 5, an external storage unit 6, a display unit 7, a communication interface (I / F) 8, and a tone signal generator 9.

[0032]The controller group 1 includes a plurality of controllers such as a performance controller (e.g., a musical keyboard), a keyboard for character input, a pointing device (e.g., a mouse), and various switches. The detection circuit 2 detects respective operation conditions of the controllers of the controller group 1. The CPU 3 controls operation of the electronic musical instrument. The ROM 4 stores control programs to be executed by the CPU 3, as well as various tab...

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b. Second Embodiment

[0065]Next, a musical score display apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. The musical score display apparatus according to the second embodiment employs the musical score display processing shown by means of a flowchart of FIG. 5, in place of the musical score display processing shown by means of flowcharts of FIGS. 4A and 4B. Since other structural features are identical with those of the first embodiment, their descriptions are omitted. The musical score display processing shown by means of the flowchart of FIG. 5 differs from the musical score display processing shown by means of the flowcharts of FIGS. 4A and 4B in the method for performing the lyric-display-data generation processing described in (3) above. Therefore, in the following description, only this difference will be described. Notably, steps of FIG. 5 identical with those of FIGS. 4A and 4B are denoted by the same step numbers.

[0066]In FIG. 5, the ly...

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c. Third Embodiment

[0071]Next, a musical score display apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. The musical score display apparatus according to the third embodiment employs the musical score display processing shown by means of flowcharts of FIGS. 6A and 6B, in place of the musical score display processing shown by means of flowcharts of in FIGS. 4A and 4B. Since other structural features are identical with those of the first embodiment, their repeated descriptions are omitted. FIGS. 7A to 7C show example display screens which are displayed by means of the musical score display processing according to the third embodiment. The musical score display processing of FIGS. 6A and 6B will be described in detail with reference to the display screens shown in FIGS. 7A to 7C.

[0072]When the musical score display processing is started, in step S31, user setting is performed. Examples of the user setting include selection of performance data for whi...

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Abstract

A musical score display apparatus reads note data and lyric data, and displays the read note data and lyric data on a displayed musical score. In the case where the lyric data are displayed to match the displayed note data, a position where character strings of the lyric data overlap is detected, and the display range of the note data and the lyric data which contains the detected position is extended. Further, the character strings of the lyric data are scrolled within the display range of the lyric data which contains the detected position. Thus, even when the character stings of the lyric overlap on the displayed musical score, a user can read the lyric without any special operation.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a musical score display apparatus, and more particularly to a musical score display apparatus for displaying performance data with lyric data in the form of a musical score.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Conventionally, there has been known an apparatus capable of displaying a musical score of attractive appearance on the basis of performance data such as MIDI data (see, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open (kokai) No. 11-327427). In such apparatus, when musical score display data are generated from performance data, the display width of each measure (bar) and the allocation of time positions of successive notes (intervals of notes) in each measure are controlled such that notes corresponding to events of different timings are not displayed in an overlapping condition.[0005]Further, some performance data of such a type include event data (lyric data) represent...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G09B15/00G09B15/02G09B15/04G10H1/00
CPCG09B15/023G10H1/0008G10H2220/011G10H2220/005
Inventor IKEYA, TADAHIKOITO, SHINICHI
Owner YAMAHA CORP
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